Project 2009  We are co-financing the expansion of the Manchay Polyclinic, which requires construction of an additional floor level. The level will be divided into living quarters for Daughters of St. Camillus and overnight stay rooms for emergency care patients (maternity and children).

We will continue to sponsor shipments of medical containers and other financial support. Until 2003 in the same spot stood the rusting shell of a passenger bus that served as "ambulatory clinic" for twice monthly Caritas Lima doctors' visits. Amigos del Peru Foundation, Miami, Florida and the Archdiocese of Lima built the present clinic on land where once the bus stood.  There are now more than 80,000 people living in the area and the clinic is a main provider of low-cost and charitable primary health care.  The medical clinic was funded entirely by donations from the United States.  The religious order of Daughters of Saint Camillus now operates the clinic and a generous supporter of medicines, supplies and equipment is Direct Relief International (DRI) of Santa Barbara, California.  The clinic recently has a Maternal Child Health (MCH) program, which is invaluable as the United Nations estimates that 240 Peruvian women die for every 100,000 births (the average for Latin America and the Caribbean is 130 per 100,000 births).